SEJONG, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s health ministry said Monday it plans to continue efforts to resolve the ongoing discord with doctors following the finalization of the university admission plan, which includes the controversial medical school quota hike, last week. The remark came after the Korean Council for University Education, an association of [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea saw an unprecedented number of senior military officers with more than five years of experience leave the armed forces last year, raising concerns about a potential erosion of combat readiness, according to government data. A total of 9,481 commissioned and non-commissioned officers resigned in 2023, a 24.1% increase [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) –As wage negotiations between Samsung Electronics and its labor unions restarted, the company’s largest union, the National Samsung Electronics Union (NSEU), held a rally disguised as a cultural event on May 24. The gathering drew an estimated 2,000 participants, according to the union, outside Samsung’s headquarters in Seoul’s Seocho District. [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Beginning in September, 100 Filipino household workers will be deployed in Seoul as part of a pilot program aimed at assisting dual-income families with child care. However, the high monthly cost of around 2.06 million won for full-time services has raised concerns among young couples about the program’s affordability. According [...]
SEJONG, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) – As South Korea’s minimum wage council begins deliberations this year to set the wage floor for 2025, labor representatives are pushing to extend minimum pay protections to gig workers and freelancers, a move that could upend compensation practices across a widening swath of the economy. At the first plenary meeting [...]
SEOUL, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Suspicions are deepening over Kang Hyung-wook, a famed dog trainer and TV personality, due to his prolonged silence on allegations of employee mistreatment at his private dog training business. Kang became famous as a professional dog trainer after starring in EBS TV’s dog training entertainment program “There Are No [...]
SEOUL, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea added nearly 300,000 wage worker jobs in the fourth quarter of 2023, but the number grew at a slower pace, and jobs for young people continued to fall for more than a year, data showed Wednesday. The number of paid employee jobs came to 20.75 million as [...]
SEOUL, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The tripartite commission of labor, management and the public launched the process Tuesday to determine next year’s minimum wage, with the nation focused on whether it will exceed 10,000 won (US$7.35) per hour for the first time. The 27-member Minimum Wage Commission, with nine representatives from each of the [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong called for junior doctors who left worksites for months to return to hospitals by Monday, while urging the medical community to resolve a protracted standoff over the government’s medical reform through dialogue. The latest appeal by Cho came as a Seoul appellate court last week [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) – With extending the retirement age emerging as a key issue in this year’s wage and collective bargaining negotiations at major South Korean companies, discussions on the matter are expected to take place at Hyundai Motor, a leader in the country’s automotive industry. On May 19, the Dong-A Ilbo reported that [...]